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I know this is stupid, but part of me felt like if I could come see you today, if I could convince you to go ...
[L]ike thee to those in sorrow, Comes to bid a sweet good-morrow To the rough year just awake In its cradle on the brake. The ...
The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling.
How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a weary world.
That night, at God knows what hour, Bill phoned me up and shouted, 'Ozzy, I think myhouse is haunted!''Sell tickets then,' I told him, and ...
I am terminally sentimental about graduations. They are more individual than weddings, more conscious than christenings, or bar mitzvahs or bat mitzvahs. They are almost ...
After two undefeated seasons of 'Worst Cooks in America,' I'm ready for a third. Going against Bobby Flay takes the challenge to another level, but ...
Success is a consequence and must not be a goal.
What's quote-unquote a 'good' lawyer, doctor, or whatever the profession is. And if you're a male who grew up professionally in a male-dominated profession, then ...
I cannot find the perfect person, but I refuse to live my life living a tragic love story based on just sex, and selfish act.
Oh my fucking god,
The way to shut us up - to denigrate and destroy the truth we hear and see -is to render us unworthy and unsuccessful and ...
If I can put one touch of rosy sunset into the life of any man or woman, I shall feel that I have worked with ...
To learn more, we have to be willing to leave the zone of the known and step into the void.
The Swedish language combines the strong manhood of the German with the delicate beauty of the Italian.
Any fear associated with giving to God's kingdom is irrational. It's on par with a farmer who, out of fear of losing his seed, refuses ...
This woman's size protected herfrom the hurts of the worldbut it also imprisoned her soul. As the merry-go-round revolved, she ate another French fry,as a ...
Put your heart in everything you do and watch dreams happen.
We all love conflagrations. When the sky changes color, it is a dead man's passing.
So let me get this straight. Government can't track illegals and out of date visas, but they know who you called this morning?
Great minds talk about ideas; small minds talk about people
In January 1962, when I was the author of one and a half unperformed plays, I attended a student production of 'The Birthday Party' at ...
I have the loving support of my girlfriend who still attends Wake Forest and is nearing graduation. She helps me cope with the everyday rigors ...
Always do 2 thing in ur life ... Either "Share the knowledge (teach some thing)" or "Gain the knowledge (learn some thing)
I have always thought beach weddings are beautiful. A sunset ceremony with a beautiful sky, white drapes and fire lanterns.
I should be making plans more for the next world than for this one.
Samurai are born to die.Death is not a curse to be avoided but the natural end of all life. Death is not eternal ... dishonor ...
Silent tears are the worst. It's the sign of a broken spirit. No sound, no residual emotions... just tears. Silent, unstoppable tears.
My mum's really short so she always wears really tall heels, and I used to steal them and now it's just a part of my ...
I have decided not to die.
Thou unfit for any place but hell.
God's gift to you is more talent and ability than you will ever use in one lifetime. Your gift to God is to develop and ...
I did a lot of thinking, and used mental activity to relieve whatever feelings I had. I became very left-brained, and I was good in ...
Feel the power of your legs, hear the orchestra playing, see the audience - anything to make the image more real. The image has to ...
Washington has thrown their soldiers on the fire.
Lewd to the least drop in the tiniest vein, Our sex is fitly food for Tragic Poets, Our whole life's but a pile of kisses ...
I decided to take my foot off the pedal with all the detail. I'm sure after 'Animalia' and 'The Eleventh Hour,' readers thought that's what ...
Adam and Eve are like imaginary numbers, like the square root of minus one ... If you include it in your equation, you can calculate ...
There is simply a better chance of doing well if the writer holds a steady course, enters the stream of English quietly, and does not ...
The worst government is the most moral.
Unless Caesar Augustus is unwittingly complying with the will of God, if it is true that in His divine wisdom He has ordained that Joseph ...
May came home with a smooth round stoneas small as a world and as large as alone.
We are not ourselves When nature, being oppressed, commands the mind To suffer with the body.
What are the beliefs that give life, spirit and passion to your dream and which values will guide your decisions and actions for you to ...
When I was ten, I loved movies like 'Cool Hand Luke' and 'Roman Holiday.' When I watched those things, I felt like it was such ...
But no matter how many fish in the sea, itd be so empty without me.
Long drawn, the cool, green shadowsSteal o'er the lake's warm breast,And the ancient silence followsThe burning sun to rest. The calm of a thousand summers,And ...
English does not distinguish between arrogant-up (irreverence toward the temporarily powerful) and arrogant-down (directed at the small guy).
By nature, human beings search for ways to make sense and meaning out of their lives and their world. One way that we make meaning ...
Honor," I said with a snort. "Honor has no place in survival.
I actually had kind of one of those crazy experiences where when I hit, it was black out excruciating pain, and then white out absence ...
A true master will not deceive an able disciple. You are hampered by the limits you set and no limit can be set on skill.
Venom first made his appearance some years ago in a Spider-Man book, and was a huge best-seller.
Pain is annoying and unnecessary, like getting an e-mail in all caps. It's like a six-year-old who alerts you every fifteen seconds that he wants ...
She never stumbles, she's got no place to fall. She's nobody's child, the law can't touch her at all.
On turf and curb and bower-roofThe snow-storm spreads its ivory woof;It paves with pearl the garden-walk;And lovingly around the tatter'd stalkAnd snivering stem its magic ...
As for him "feeling dead", that's probably just a consequence of him being gone from your life for so long. In some sense he no ...
Songs for me are like a message in a bottle. You send them out to the world, and maybe the person who you feel that ...
Henry glares at him. "I will say this for you. You stick by your man." "I have never had anything from the cardinal other than ...
I really think happiness is very closely aligned with success, and may almost be an interchangeable synonym. Happiness (like success) also comes from doing what ...
These days I'm pretty much a businessman.
I initially wanted to be a teacher, and then I was going to become an engineer and build bridges and highways, but pretty soon I ...
There has been a vast output of critical studies in contemporary poetry, some of them first rate, but I do not think that , as ...
Confident is a spirit of faith
The saddest day of the year is the day baseball season ends.
My knock with filmmaking is the whole bureaucracy around it, so in some ways, staying outside of it is easier for me.
Do not belong to those who only get their thoughts from books, or at the prompting of books,-it is our custom to think in the ...
I almost envy your horse," she said, "because these thighs hug him all day."-Rebecca to Jake
The struggle to reach the top is itself enough to fulfill the heart of man. One must believe that Sisyphus is happy.
As I came down the stairs, all attention turned from the girls, and everyone looked to me as though this were some sort of drama ...
The contemporary climate is therapeutic, not religious. People today hunger not for personal salvation, let alone for the restoration of an earlier golden age, but ...
We walk into a bar, and you're aware of all the eyes on you. We walk into a bar, and I'm aware of all the ...
Some things get better with age. And then there's Madonna.
If General Motors is worth $60 a share to an investor it must be because the full common-stock ownership of this gigantic enterprise as a ...
Behind gods, ghosts, and people squats the state, which asserts total access to both public and private space: the
Nero would be long since forgotten without his outbursts of bloody clowning. ~ Emil Cioran, A Short History of Decay
I think there's so much feeling among young girls where they feel like they have to be this perfect thing - and they don't. Perfect ...
JOURNEY: ...no one messes with my family without suffering the consequences.
And what he greatly thought, he nobly dared.
I've gotten very good at scheduling my life, scheduling the scene and preparing myself for knowing, saving the energy, consuming the energy, knowing when to ...
She wasn't the type to stab you in the back. She stabbed you right there in the front so you could watch all the blood ...
We go through life so fast and we never really get to enjoy moments. It seems like they go past us ... Tonight I just ...
I'm tired of watching as men destroy all the world. Everything used to be beautiful when women were in charge, and now I, working as ...
....the longer I look, the more convinced I am she's the perfect storm and I'm lost at sea."-Andrew
But no one believes in that way what he reads in a novel ... Oh yes they do. If only to see themselves as wise ...
Tennis is a funny game, and it takes a life-time of keeping one's eyes open on the circuit to have any chance of understanding the ...
It's sad. That's a living creature. We don't have the right to take their life away for fashion.
Lieutenant Mortas is the black sheep of the family--I thought you knew that.
The period western doesn't have a lot to say to most people today.
Success in creating AI would be the biggest event in human history. Unfortunately, it might also be the last, unless we learn how to avoid ...
I think every relationship has a point where you stop and reevaluate. Are you happy? Have you grown together or apart? What do you share ...
That clock's a lot like the town, she decided. Looks good, sounds great, pretends to be some sort of masterpiece. But it's broken. It's rotten ...
I was raised in the church by my grandmother who made sure we went to Sunday School, read the Bible and went to church every ...
It wasn't easy, but I endured. There were stories about a land filled with trees, and game, where there were no wars or disease. I ...
It's not just self defense, it's about ... self control, body discipline, and mind discipline ... and breath techniques. It involves yoga. It involves meditation. ...
If this is a sad story, don't tell it to me tonight.'It is not sad,' she said. 'Only some things happen and are there for ...
I'll tell you what I really enjoy. We all go to the movies, we all watch television, we know what they're about, how they work. ...
Every article I see is dope this, junkie that, whiskey this - that ain't my title.
But stories don't end. They continue as long as you're alive. You just have to get on with things. Turn the page, start a new ...
Stress is not necessarily something bad it all depends on how you take it. The stress of exhilarating, creative successful work is beneficial, while that ...